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Germany needs a "comprehensive" new trade EU deal with the UK after Brexit to minimise the potential fallout for its own economy, a leading politician has warned.

Ilse Aigner, the Bavarian economy minister, said that Brexit poses a "high risk" to the economy and argued that the UK is one of the "most important trading partners for Bavaria", one of Germany's most prosperous states.